In the first six months of that year, 19,358 wildfires burned 584,000 acres in the United States. Already in 2025, nearly ...

The Forest Service released its 201-page Congressional Justification budget statement on June 8. It goes into much greater ...

Today, nearly 1,000 grizzly bears inhabit the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including Yellowstone National Park and a ...

In the coming months, Yellowstone National Park, as part of the Interagency Bison Management Plan adopted with the state of Montana in 2000, intends to reduce the current size of the park's bison herd ...

Steven Fuller has reached his 49 th consecutive New Year’s Day morning in Yellowstone. He arrived in America's first national park 50 years ago in 1973. In years' past, he's often greeted a new annum ...

How many times have we used the phrase “get the lead out” to encourage action on this or that issue? Well, it’s time to take these words literally and get the lead out of our hunting ammunition; ...

About Sophie Tsairis Sophie Tsairis is a freelance writer based in Bozeman, Montana. She earned a master's degree in ...

I still love the U.S. Forest Service. Actually, I should qualify that: as an American woman of color who has had a lifelong passion for ecology and conserving natural resources, I love the idea of the ...

Does mountain biking impact wildlife, any more than hikers and horseback riders do? More specifically: could rapidly-growing numbers of cyclists in the backcountry of Greater Yellowstone negatively ...

Few of us, it’s safe to say, ever set out with intentions of bringing harm to Mother Nature, particularly when our actions involve participating in forms of outdoor recreation that make us feel good, ...

With these ashes in hand that have fallen from near and far on the drought-cracked desert of Utah, I raise my fist to a smoke-choked sky to honor the holy creatures, human and wild, who have lost ...

Up in the Far US North, he spent months studying grizzlies on the tundra, sleeping out in a tent on nights when the summer sun barely dipped below the horizon. On the other side of the thin wall of ...